Queensland is rattled by a magnitude-5.7 earthquake, the strongest in almost a century, and two aftershocks, two days after another strong quake struck the region. A seismologist warns more may follow.

The Australian government has announced it will provide $AUD 2 million to fund a program to encourage individuals, businesses and NGOs to find creative solutions to challenges brought on by natural disasters in the Pacific.

Malaysian authorities arrest a European man for allegedly stripping naked and urinating on Mount Kinabalu prior to a deadly earthquake, reports say, an act that some locals believe angered tribal spirits and caused the quake.

Australian climber Vee Jin Dumlao describes the harrowing journey down Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu, after an earthquake left her and more than 100 other climbers stranded atop its peak for nine hours without rescue.